Is your blueprint for success or failure?

I search for quotes every week.  There’s something about a well-worded phrase or sentence to kick me out of my comfortable sand box of responsibilities and assumptions.  I found one this week from Napoleon Hill:

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

The act of vision-ing is natural and healthy.  And whether you believe it or not it’s working right now.  Counselor Don Gilbert thinks vision is not only natural and healthy, but “necessary.  Being stuck in an open-ended rut can cause you harm.  Choosing something different is always a healthy option.”

How do you treat your visions?  Do you feel the power?  Your visions of the future establish powerful blueprints that influence your daily experience.

• The “stability” blueprint:  You picture never finding passionate

  

  love so you don’t go through the process of trying to find someone special.  You can see you will never be able to leave your job to pursue the career you really want, so you stay focused on your daily tasks and stop dreaming of your purpose.  What are you imagining?  Do you picture never finding love?  Never able to afford to have that career you really want?  That is part of your blueprint, reducing your risks to have stability.

• The “don’t buck the system” blueprint:  Yes, you have visions but maybe now is NOT the time to step out on the crazy-limb.  Everyone else seems happy with their lives, and it’s working for them.  Your parents, and your parents’ parents did just fine with this life, and it WORKS for them.  Who do you think you are to change the blueprint?
• The “let’s just be grateful” blueprint:  No one will call you a malcontent.  You are just so grateful for everything you have in your life.  So many would love to trade places with you.  If you vision something else, you might dream yourself right out of your comfortable existence.  Better to be very thankful for what you have so you don’t lose it
• The “I don’t deserve it” blueprint:  So you’ve made a few mistakes, have you?  And somehow the people with the better.
• Psychologist Don Gilbert with New Life Counseling states, “don’t ask yourself WHAT YOU WANT in five year (money, career), ask yourself WHO you want to be?”  Which brings me to the last and LIZ APPROVED blueprint.

• The “superstar/ Napoleon Hill” blueprint:  OR and yes, this is my favorite, you treat those dreams and vision as the “design plan” of your best life.  You imagine careers, relationships and situations that FIT your strengths, that FIT you!

Take a second today and admit to your blueprint.  It’s okay, and it’s normal.  THEN, start dreaming.  Remember our friend Napoleon Hill.  Visioning is necessary, normal and essential to experiencing a life full of purpose and meaning.

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